Sydney, Printed and Published by H.T. Dunn & Co., 1902. Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant (born Edwin Henry Murrant, 1864-1902) was executed by firing squad in Pretoria for murder on 27 February 1902. The first notice we have found relating to this short work appeared less than three months later. A...... More
London, Robert Tyas, 1838 (second edition, 'considerably augmented')/ 1837. More
London, C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1898. The maps bound in show the 'Routes of Previous Exploration in the Interior of Western Australia' (410 × 330 mm, with an archival tape repair to the stub panel); and the 'Country traversed by the Author, 1894-1895' (475 × 400 mm, with archival tape..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1905. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 27 of 1905; one of only 730 copies. McLaren 7723. The Murchison and Davenport Ranges in 1898 and 1899, and from the vicinity of Tennant Creek westward to within 30 miles of the Western Australian border and back by a circuitous..... More
Kalgoorlie, 'D. Falconer, Photo Artist', [between August 1894 and 1896]. The most readily-accessible, extensive (and accurate) information on Davidson is to be found in the lengthy introduction by Valmai Hankel to the new edition of 'Journal of Explorations in Central Australia ... 1898-1900'. The journal was first published as South..... More
Heidelberg, The Editors, 1952 to 1955. 'Six years ago Ern Malley lived and died in Australia. Child of the unintended creative act of two other Australian poets he became overnight the most significant figure in the current literary scene. Alike as poet and as a symbol of creative living ....... More
Evans was second officer of the 'Morning', the ship sent out by the Royal Geographical Society in 1904 to the relief of Scott's first Antarctic expedition. In 1909 he was selected by Scott himself as second-in-command of his second expedition and captain of the 'Terra Nova'. He accompanied Scott in..... More
Friend's erotic masterpiece was published in Melbourne in 1979 by Richard Griffin's Gryphon Press - a full-colour facsimile of the richly illustrated holograph manuscript (elephant folio, [iv], 126 pages). The edition was limited to only 150 copies numbered and signed by Donald Friend; it was oversubscribed on publication. This large-format..... More
London, Dulau, 1896. The purpose of this scientific expedition, sponsored by mining magnate and philanthropist William Austin Horn, and with Charles Winnecke as commander and surveyor, was to examine the MacDonnell Ranges on the not unreasonable premise that 'when the rest of the Continent was submerged the elevated portions of..... More
The portrait is interesting by any measure. Fanny is wearing an ankle-length skirt, blouse, and a sun hat held in place with a large spotted scarf knotted under her chin. She is standing in what appears to be a traditional South Australian back yard (the high corrugated-iron fence is a...... More
The photograph is positioned so that the finished product presents as a diamond shape; it is both unusual and effective. Both the mat and photograph are in fine condition. The details of the photographer, 'Chas P. Scott, Waymouth Street, Adelaide', are blindstamped in the bottom right-hand corner of the mat..... More
Charles Scott (1878-1928) is listed as a photographer at that address in South Australian directories 'from 1909 to 1915+' (Photohistory SA website). More
London, Thomas Murby, [1866]. The editor notes that the work was 'chiefly dictated, with the help of materials recorded in the log-book of the journey, by Mr. Landsborough himself' during a four-month voyage from Australia. Ferguson 11330; Wantrup 175 (noting the edition in wrappers, but not recording that it has..... More
Adelaide, Royal Geographical Society of South Australia, 1911 [enlarged edition]. Number 31 of only 200 copies numbered and signed by Thomas Gill. This is a deluxe, enlarged edition of a work first published as the Supplement to Volume 11 of the Proceedings of the RGSSA in the same year. The..... More
Brisbane, George Slater, 1865. MacDonald's successful private expedition was undertaken at his own expense, as was the printing of this account. This copy is inscribed on the front flyleaf to 'Alfred G. Manning [?] Esq with the Author's compts'. Ferguson 11936; Wantrup 184a. More
London, Sampson, Low, Son & Co., 1863. 'John Davis was a member of the South Australian relief expedition, led by John McKinlay, to search for Burke and Wills. The expedition travelled to Cooper Creek and north almost to the Gulf of Carpentaria ... [They then] made for Port Denison (Bowen)..... More
Melbourne, Lansdowne (Lansdowne Editions after the first one), 1973 to 1981 (as detailed above). All volumes are signed and numbered copies of editions limited to 500 copies (or just 350 copies for the book on finches). All volumes carry the number 53 and the bookplate of J. Mark Bonnin, with..... More
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1899. The head of the title page is inscribed in indelible pencil, in an unknown hand, 'With Kindest Regards from': this is followed by the ink signatures of both authors (as W. Baldwin Spencer and F.J. Gillen). A seminal work in the history of anthropology..... More
The gelatin silver photographs (image size 160 × 205 mm, or the reverse in three instances) are mounted on thick flush-cut cardboard; there are some chips and trifling imperfections around the edges, and two have slight surface imperfections in background areas; overall, they are in very good condition. The images..... More
Adelaide, J.T. Shawyer, Printer, 1874. The frontispiece, a Townsend Duryea photograph, is a composite of five numbered oval portraits; the identification key is printed on the verso of the title page. Ferguson 16706 (not identifying the photographer, and not indicating that the five photographic portraits are in fact one composite..... More
Adelaide, 'Published by the Authors at the native location' [and printed by Robert Thomas and Co., Hindley Street, Adelaide], 1840. A rare and important early Adelaide publication, and among the earliest and extensive works of its kind; the vocabulary and phraseology run to 76 pages. Ferguson 3102 (with slight variations..... More
Adelaide, A.C. Harley and Co., 1914. 'Notwithstanding the fact that we have more than doubled the number of illustrations, it has been found impossible to include all our patterns, as we are constantly adding to their number.' A rare, handsome and important catalogue of decorative ironwork; the very rare first..... More
Adelaide, Hunkin, Ellis & King, Printers and Publishers, Pirie Street, [1929 (first edition, first impression)]. This is claimed - incorrectly - to be the first book by an Aboriginal Australian (see Michael Richards: 'People, Print and Paper. A Catalogue of a Travelling Exhibition celebrating the Books of Australia, 1788-1988', National..... More
Adelaide, Hunkin, Ellis & King, Printers and Publishers, Pirie Street, [1929 (first edition, later impression)]. This is claimed - incorrectly - to be the first book by an Aboriginal Australian (see Michael Richards: 'People, Print and Paper. A Catalogue of a Travelling Exhibition celebrating the Books of Australia, 1788-1988', National..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 177 of 1866. Peter Egerton Warburton (1813-1889), at this stage of his life also the Commissioner of Police in South Australia, 'examined the northern shores of Lake Eyre, searching unsuccessfully for Sturt's Cooper's Creek but finding instead a large river, now..... More
